Karen Peterson-Iyer is Program Specialist and Interim Coordinator for the Health Care Ethics Intern Program at the Center. She supervises this program-which sends undergraduates into local hospital and hospice settings to observe real-world bioethical issues-and leads the student interns in reflection sessions upon those experiences. In addition, she has undertaken various research projects at the Center and has authored papers and studies on culturally competent health care, ethics and genetics, and public policy. Peterson-Iyer comes to the Center with a background in ethics scholarship and teaching, social justice-based journalism, and campus ministry. She is the author of Designer Children: Reconciling Genetic Technology, Feminism, and Christian Faith (Pilgrim Press, 2004), as well as various scholarly articles in biomedical, sexual, and general ethics. Before working at the Center, she taught Christian Ethics and Biomedical Ethics in the SCU Religious Studies Department as well as at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She has also worked in campus ministry and on the writing and editorial staff of Sojourners magazine in Washington, D.C. Peterson-Iyer holds a Ph.D. in ethics from Yale University, a Master of Divinity from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, Calif., and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Stanford University. |
